a sister of Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus [AHENOBARBUS, No. 10], and
consequently an aunt of the emperor Nero. She was the wife of Crispus Passienus, who
afterwards deserted her and married Agrippina, the mother of Nero. It is natural, therefore,
that Tacitus should call her an enemy of Agrippina. After the murder of his mother, Nero
ordered Domitia, who was already of an advanced age, to be poisoned, in order that he might
get possession of the property, which she possessed at Baiae, and in the neighbourhood of
Ravenna, on which estates he built magnificent gymnasia. (